From Morocco to Spain: The boy who swam across the sea

Fifteen-year-old Younes from Morocco embarked upon an unusual journey to escape poverty. He swam over three hours to reach the Spanish enclave of Melilla, only to have his dreams shattered. This is the story of Younes - the boy who risked his life, and his hopes, in the Mediterranean.

[@krispy395]

Melilla is still in Morocco, so the title is misleading.....I thought he actually swam to spain

[@Junior-qm2lz]

Melilla is Spain, otherwise why so many Morrocan are risking their lives to go so the "same" country?. Do you realize of your contradiction?

[@krispy395]

@@Junior-qm2lz spain is not in africa, melila is in the land of morocco...its just been colonised.

[@Junior-qm2lz]

@@krispy395 so according to your logic, it does it matter what the people living there want, rather geography, so given that, the west part of Turkey should belong to Greece and the west east part of Egypt to Israel, right?

[@krispy395]

@@Junior-qm2lz the people want to have their own country back...they want the end to their land being colonised.

[@tortilla7221]

@@Junior-qm2lz they are part of spain!
in morocco's land (before)
you can also say the land is theirs now, since they live in it rn!
but historicaly!
these lands used to be a a moroccan property (called the big maghreb country.. including some of algeria and Mauritania),
the land of berberes
which integrated with arabic culture
during the arabic empires culture/religion expensions
it was invaded by the romans before that, but they lost progressively and couldn't land in the african continent sucessfully,
it was told that they even lived thousand years before the start of berberes yearly count which is more
than 900 years in advance than jesus's calendar in the modern time,
they lived in the egyptian era or maybe the stone era!?
some fossils studies said!

[@xxdizannyxx]

I've been to the tip of tangier and you can clearly see spain across the water, it's not that far at all.

[@xxdizannyxx]

@@krispy395 went there to ask my wife's parents permission to marry her. She lived in Larache which is north pert of Morocco, she is pregnant with our first child now and she's only 24 and I'm 34, haha.

[@phantompage4304]

@@xxdizannyxx ayy i know guy from larache 😂

[@anthonyg.4785]

From it's narrowest point it's seven (7) miles and it's pretty long not to mention fairly deep by several hundred meters. There's no margin for error when swimming the strait of gibraltar.

[@ABC-ABC1234]

@@xxdizannyxx So you're Spanish living in Spain or Moroccan living in Spain?

[@paintinout3709]

Dale papeles y que trabaje , y si no trabaja pues quitárselo y mandarlo de vuelta

[@mrsrnr1801]

He swam from spain to morroco and that water ain't warm at all

[@tariqbahoussain1442]

It is warm the water